News Bites: Corpses, Mummies, and a Disease From Peter Pan

- Girls and Corpses magazine, who we have been oddily and, at times, confusingly in love with since back in the day, has officially (and finally) launched its first glossy issue. Which means now you can pick up an issue and hold it in your grubby little mitts. The issue features Sheri Moon Zombie and the usual onslaught of fiction, reviews, interviews, and more.

If nothing else, I dare you to find me something better to have lying about on your coffee table.

[Cover image from online issue #7.]

- This morning Kevin pointed me to Brass Goggles, a blog dedicated to seemingly all things steampunk. And that’s frankly something I find myself mildly obsessed with now and again, so it’s terribly interesting (and fun!) to go through and check out all the images and bits dug up over there. Plus they have a neat, brief steampunk FAQ for those of you not previously inclined.

- Completely unrelated to anything else, but posted for your sheer pleasure due to it’s fantastic, albeit somewhat misleading, headline: Peter Pan sickens island woman. Unfortunately, it’s in reference to the peanut butter, not some pre-teen with a penchant for causing nausea.

- Over at the Horror Blog, an abridged roundtable group discusses which horror performances should have been nominated for Academy Awards. It’s an interesting, if brief, chat with some good suggestions. Personally, I agree with Stacie’s suggestion of Donald Sutherland for the ’70s edition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, though my personal picks would have to be Wilford Brimley for Supporting Actor in The Thing and Peter Cushing in…well, just about anything (though I’ve always leaned towards his performance in the Hammer update of The Mummy).

- Exclamation Mark, one of my unabashed favorite film critics out there, apparently thought he could sneak his long awaited new review past me. This time around he takes a look at 1956’s The She-Creature.

- Finally, sticking to the review front, over at her personal blog Cherie Priest takes a quick, yet in-depth look at The Abandoned, the film whose trailers have left me somewhat confused and squinting at my television set. While I’d like to trudge out through the slush to give it a look for myself, I’ll probably end up waiting for something I’m a little more excited for.

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You’re reading “News Bites: Corpses, Mummies, and a Disease From Peter Pan,” an entry by Rick Geerling

Published:
2.25.07 / 3pm
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Film, Oddities
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